B
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0.174%
0.174% -- paid subscription adoption rate for Grok (xAI) (Q2 2026)
0.174% of surveyed U.S. consumers and workers who use AI reported paying for Grok in Q2 2026.
- Compared against 0.173% in Q2 2025
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Value
0.174%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
Q2 2026
Entity
Sample Size
260,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
Source
Recon Analytics
Primary
Tier B
https://512pixels.net/2026/05/grok-is-the-rc-cola-of-the-ai-world/ ↗
Source Article
‘Grok is the RC Cola’ of the AI World
Joe Wilkins, writing at Futurism:
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of AI.” These are Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta — giant tech monopolies which happen to also be four of the six top US corporations by market value.
Then there are the …
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Methodology
Recon Analytics survey of more than 260,000 U.S. consumers and workers who use AI; share of respondents who said they paid for Grok. Prior-year comparison: 0.173% in Q2 2025 (essentially flat year over year). Figures cited via Wall Street Journal reporting quoted by Futurism.
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